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Barbados
cafuffle
Totally confused
Trinidad & Tobago
caimite
A round fruit about the size of a tennis ball. It has a glossy leathery skin that is either green, purple, or some combination of the two colours. Inside is a purple and white milky flesh that exhibits a distinct star pattern. The fruit is sweet and eaten raw
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US Virgin Islands
cainit
A round fruit about the size of a tennis ball. It has a glossy leathery skin that is either green, purple, or some combination of the two colours. Inside is a purple and white milky flesh that exhibits a distinct star pattern. The fruit is sweet and eaten raw
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Dominican Republic
cajuil
Otaheite apple; Pear shaped fruit with red skin and white flesh. Typically, they contain a single large seed. However, they may occasionally be seedless. The fruit is sweet and is usually eaten raw or used to make drinks.
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Bahamas
cake
The vagina. The female sexual organ.
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Barbados
Jamaica
cake soap
Blocks of blue soap used for washing and whitening laundry.
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Jamaica
calaban
A trap for catching ground walking or ground feeding birds and small animals such as the coney or manicou. The trap is made from a upside-down box or container lightly propped up by a stick with bait underneath. A string is attached to the stick such that when the animal enters it trips the string which then pulls the stick and causes the trap to fall.
Barbados
Belize
Dominica
Guyana
Jamaica
St. Kitts & Nevis
Trinidad & Tobago
calabash
A gourd that is used for utilitarian purposes, and not for food. The skin or shell of the large green fruit hardens to become wood-like when dry. The shell can then be carved and is used to make a variety of items including cups, and bowls and decorative pieces.
plant
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Trinidad & Tobago
calchul
A ladle commonly used to serve dhal
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Trinidad & Tobago
calibash
A gourd that is used for utilitarian purposes, and not for food. The skin or shell of the large green fruit hardens to become wood-like when dry. The shell can then be carved and is used to make a variety of items including cups, and bowls and decorative pieces.
Trinidad & Tobago
calinda
A style of stick fighting martial art commonly seen during Carnival . It is the national martial art of Trinidad and Tobago
Belize
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
St. Vincent
callaloo
Aramanth - an edible green leafy vegetable resembling spinach. It is typically prepared by steaming, often with saltfish
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Puerto Rico
camaron
Shrimp, particularly freshwater shrimp
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Jamaica
can grenade
Canned mackerel in tomato sauce
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Trinidad & Tobago
canal conch
A promiscuous woman.
person
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Trinidad & Tobago
candle fly
A firefly; A beetle that produces a blinking yellow, orange, or red light via bioluminescence.
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Guyana
canguhlong
A deadbeat, a person who does not advance his/her social standing; abbreviation for can't go along
Trinidad & Tobago
canistel
Canistel; A bright yellow ovoid fruit with a pointed tip. It is related to the sapodilla and is edible. The flesh tends to be dryer than other sapodillas and the texture is similar to that of a hardboiled egg yolk.
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Guyana
canyadan
A virgin bride
person
Trinidad & Tobago
US Virgin Islands
capok tree
The silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously separated in the family Bombacaceae), It is known for the cotton like fibres produced by its seed pods. It features in obeah and other African based superstition and religious.
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Bahamas
capoonkle
Drunk or intoxicated
Guyana
carailla
Momordica charantia often called bitter melon, bitter gourd or bitter squash in English, has many other local names. It is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean for its edible fruit. Its many varieties differ substantially in the shape and bitterness of the fruit.
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Belize
Trinidad & Tobago
caraille
Momordica charantia often called bitter melon, bitter gourd or bitter squash in English, has many other local names. It is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean for its edible fruit. Its many varieties differ substantially in the shape and bitterness of the fruit.
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Martinique
caramanja
The fruit and tree of Averrhoa bilimbi. A relative of the carambola or star fruit, the tree produces an edible, green, five pomed, cucumber like fruit.
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Guyana
carass
Type of fish.a bottom feeder
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Jamaica
carbide
To ripen prematurely, particularly through artificial means.
Jamaica
carbine
To ripen prematurely, particularly through artificial means.
US Virgin Islands
card
To cheat or have an affair.
Trinidad & Tobago
carite
The king mackerel or kingfish
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food
Guyana
cark
Bottle cap
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